Fictocritical Writing
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In the postwar evolution of white Australian masculinities, the icon of the well-tanned surfer emerged as an alternative to the rural ideal of the farmer battling against the harsh and unforgiving landscape. This implicit... more
Published in The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism, eds Amanda Nettelbeck and Heather Kerr, (Perth: University of Western Australia Press) pp 33- 52
In an age where displacement and dislocation are a common place, McKenzie Wark sets out to make the best of it. In Dispositions, he creates a way of writing that can create a sense of belonging while remaining outside of the markers of a... more
A ficto-critical 'index' for The Hundreds, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart Duke University Press, 2018. pp. 153-4.
Joining 3 others, by Fred Moten, Andrew Causey and C. Thresher, and Susan Lepselter.
Joining 3 others, by Fred Moten, Andrew Causey and C. Thresher, and Susan Lepselter.
福岡大学人文論叢
Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, 39(4), 985-1037 (2008-03)
Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, 39(4), 985-1037 (2008-03)
‘Postlude: Fictocriticism after Critique,’ in Eds. Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead, Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches, London: Bloomsbury,, pp. 232-237.
Fictional essay; cut up composition with critical reflection in the form of an Afterword.
In this paper I have cut up and rearranged stories from my first attempt at writing and theorising sudden memoir. Here I discuss the ways that writing sudden memoir blurred the lines between how things were and how they became once they... more
To cite this article: By Thomas Bristow (2020) Period Rhetoric, Countersignature, and the Australian Novel, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 35:1, 35-61,
Watch the video: https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/15044/roaming-assembly-26%C2%A0-gerrit-haas-artful-fictocritical-writing Abstract: While the name ‘fictocriticism’ was coined at the fringes of the 1990s’ Canadian art scene, the... more
This is an essay about the fictocritical concept of a 'space between' the categories of literature and criticism, and the relationship of this metaphorical space to the institutional places in which fictocriticism circulates. The 'space... more
This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Bibliographic Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Calgary, Ab. on 30 May 2016. A creative critical examination of the archive, both material... more
Artykuł stanowi komentarz na temat dwóch książek: "Fikcje jako metoda. Strategie kontr[f]aktualne w pisaniu historii, literaturze, sztukach" (red. Małgorzata Sugiera, Kraków 2018) i "Performanse pamięci w literaturach i sztukach" (red.... more
Experimental writing published in The Arrow Maker no. 2. March 2017. The Arrow Maker is a semi-regular journal for new writing including text and image work across genres edited by Ruth Höflich and Isabel Waidner and published by 8fold,... more
Review of my book Aquamorphia in Poeticanet, by Ilana Freedman,
This paper is a long adaptation of one initially given at the 2015 Lectures Féministes at Paris 8. The English was printed while the French read aloud. It proposes a Slash fiction of Joanna Russ's "Female Man", called [xxx] — an... more
For all its advances, Social Science is still methodologically constrained in its capacity to incorporate lived subjectivities into its discussions of sexuality. Auto/biographical writing tends to be used to illustrate analytic... more
This article deploys a cut-up technique borrowed from the haunted, fictocritical writing of Anna Gibbs. Taking descriptions from parts of different haunted houses found in short stories of the female gothic, it reconstitutes a new house,... more
This research explores the practice of art writing in terms of the production of tactical subjectivity. Instrumentalised by the market and knowledge economies, art writing has found itself in a precarious and compromised position. This... more
Call for Reader-Performers: Fictocriticism, creative critique, and other possible letters An approach that combines creation and critique, such as fictocritcism, or les textes possibles, implies a letting go. As others and elsewheres... more